After Alice

Gregory Maguire

William Morrow

2015

256 páginas

8h 32m

ISBN-13: 9780060548957

From the multi-million-copy bestselling author of Wicked comes a magical new twist on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, published to coincide with the 150th anniversary of Lewis’s Carroll’s beloved classic.

When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice’s disappearance?

In this brilliant new work of fiction, Gregory Maguire turns his dazzling imagination to the question of underworlds, undergrounds, underpinnings—and understandings old and new, offering an inventive spin on Carroll’s enduring tale. Ada, a friend of Alice’s mentioned briefly in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, is off to visit her friend, but arrives a moment too late—and tumbles down the rabbit hole herself.

Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect apprehension of cause and effect as she embarks on an odyssey to find Alice and see her safely home from this surreal world below the world. If Euridyce can ever be returned to the arms of Orpheus, or Lazarus can be raised from the tomb, perhaps Alice can be returned to life. Either way, everything that happens next is "After Alice."

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Maravilhoso

Gregory Maguire tem uma capacidade impressionante de imaginar uma história dentro de outra história e que faz todo sentido com a história original sem copiar nada. After Alice mantém a atmosfera de Alice no país das maravilhas e junta a isso uma busca pelas duas meninas, o clima das vidas das famílias e ainda coloca Darwin no meio sem parecer absurdo. Livro fantástico.